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"When it comes to box office, the rebooted Star Trek franchise has still yet to hit the heights Paramount envisioned for the series. Director J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot was a hit, providing a solid foundation, and going forward Paramount was aiming towards Mission: Impossible or Fast and Furious-style success. That never materialized. While Star Trek Into Darkness improved upon the worldwide gross of the first movie by just under $100 USD million, scoring $467.3 USD million worldwide, the third film Star Trek Beyond fell below expectations, earning $343.4 USD million worldwideŚ$20 million less than Abrams' first movie.

This has put the future of the franchise somewhat in doubt, but Beyond was a solid effort by all with Simon Pegg coming in to rewrite the entire screenplay with Doug Jung after the film's initial director, Roberto Orci, left the project. Pegg and Jung took the franchise into a direction more in line with the original TV series, with Fast Five director Justin Lin providing the necessary action beats from a visual standpoint, and while the film itself was very different from Abrams' two movies, it was marketed like Fast & Furious in Space…"Main pagelink

I'm sorry. I thought everyone knew. Star Trek has no future. It was cancelled in 1969. Anyone who doubts that has only to watch "Encounter at Farpoint," Star Trek V or either of the Abrams films. Star Trek has been dead a very long time.

Well, if they wanted to do something totally out of the box Trek they could do a series focused on the Klingon Succession War after the defeat of the Dominion. Martok is unable to hold the shattered Empire together and it splinters into warring factions vying to dominate the others. GOT in Spaaaacceee!! But not using the new froggie goth Klingons…

The Trek Discovery show seems to be successful despite all the changes they did to the setting, so no doubt the future will take that direction. I personally did not care for any of the reboot movies, as I felt they had some serious flaws in each of them, besides moving away from the core values of Trek in favor of a more action movie franchise. So if the reboot movies become moribund, I'm not feeling the loss…